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Amalgamation vs Salmagundi - What's the difference?

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Amalgamation is a related term of salmagundi.


As nouns the difference between amalgamation and salmagundi

is that amalgamation is the process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation while salmagundi is a food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.

amalgamation

English

Noun

(wikipedia amalgamation) (en noun)
  • The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
  • The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
  • # (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
  • (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.

    • salmagundi

    English

    (wikipedia salmagundi)

    Alternative forms

    * solomongundy * Solomon Gundy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
  • Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 544:
  • *:Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage , which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.
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    • Synonyms

    * (mixture of various ingredients) miscellany, olio, potpourri

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